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UB Center for the Arts
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March 11th, 2020 by Ann Marie Cusella
Dolly Gallagher Levi, matchmaker extraordinaire, first graced the musical stage in the person of Carol Channing at the St. James Theatre on Broadway on January 16, 1964. Since then, she has spread her particular brand of chutzpah…
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March 7th, 2020 by Ann Marie Cusella
Indecent, expertly directed by Kristin Tripp Kelley, is a multi-layered, beautifully produced play that feels balletic in movement as it explores themes of antisemitism, homophobia, sexism, and political persecution in the first…
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March 6th, 2020 by Ann Marie Cusella
A foul-mouthed little devil has taken up residence in the form of a sock puppet named Tyrone at Road Less Traveled Theater in the riotous comedy Hand to God. If you like your comedy broad, biting, irreverent, and so funny you…
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February 21st, 2020 by Ann Marie Cusella
A bottle of scotch, a childhood trauma, and listening to the suffering of others as the intake counselor for Psychological Counseling Services on Christmas Eve is the powerful brew that catapults almost middle-aged Fred into…
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January 19th, 2020 by Ann Marie Cusella
Suicide, grief, and family discord are explored at the Paul Robeson Theatre in the intense drama, Jump, by Charly Evon Simpson, a winner of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. At the opening of Jump, an anxious man stands on a…
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January 18th, 2020 by Ann Marie Cusella
The fairies have alighted at Kleinhans Music Hall this weekend in a swirl of sound, color and magic that pulsate throughout the beautiful hall in the woodland romp that is Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.…
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January 17th, 2020 by Ann Marie Cusella
An absorbing play with absurdist overtones, The Antipodes by Annie Baker, is two hours of dialogue about stories—telling stories, having characters tell personal stories and make up bits and pieces of stories—in a…
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January 11th, 2020 by Ann Marie Cusella
Opening to the sound of a mournful cello and a projection of the Roseman Bridge in Winterset, Iowa, home of the famous covered bridges in the title, Kavinoky Theatre’s excellent production of the The Bridges of Madison…
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December 13th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
The two lost episodes of The Golden Girls are replete with commercials and trivia and Jeopardy games played with the audience. They are on the tiny stage at the Alleyway Cabaret in a parody of the popular sitcom from the 1980s,…
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December 11th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
‘Twas two weeks before Christmas and over at Shea’sThe audience departed all in a daze.They staggered to their homes and dropped into their bedsWith visions of Valjean and Javert dancing in their heads. In other words,…
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December 7th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Puerto Rican—or is it Sorta Rican or Nuyorican—Superhero magic is afoot at the Manny Fried Playhouse. A play that asks serious questions about identity, about art vs. commerce, decries gentrification, and skewers…
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December 6th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Ah, the 1950s in South Buffalo, a place where the ratio of bars to churches leaned in favor of the gin mills, where the Catholic church with its bevy of black and white clad nuns ruled the schools with scary efficiency, where…
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November 23rd, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Looking at childhood Christmases through the bifocals of age is a pastime that warms the hearts of those sitting at table or around a fire celebrating Christmas present, or just quietly reminiscing to a friend about the time…
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November 16th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
August Wilson creates entire worlds through the characters in his series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, which outline the African American experience in the 20th century. Each play takes place during a decade of the century,…
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November 9th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
In a superb production of a brilliant, thought-provoking adaptation by Aaron Sorkin, The Kavinoky Theatre and Director Kyle LoConti have dotted all their i’s and crossed all their t’s, creating a must-see evening…
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November 5th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
A toaster cover and June Cleaver pearls, a rotary dial phone and portable typewriter are emblems of the 1950s in the short (60 minute), one-woman play about humorist Erma Bombeck now at Shea’s 710 Theatre. Ms. Bombeck was…
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November 1st, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Playwright Qui Nguyen is an OBIE award-winning co-founder of Vampire Cowboys of NYC, a pioneer of “geek theatre.” They are “dedicated to creating shows for the pop culture nerd in us all…committed to…
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October 27th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
In Israeli playwright Anat Gov’s very smart, witty and insightful play, Oh My God! the Creator of All That Is (Todd Benzin) has been experiencing a dark night of the soul for about 2,000 years, give or take. As a last-ditch…
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October 26th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
THE TOXIC AVENGER! His mission? To clean up all the toxic waste in the world, well… at least in New Jersey, and to win the heart of fair damsel, the luscious, lascivious Sarah the Blind Librarian. Does he succeed? That…
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October 25th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Local playwright Mark Humphrey’s new play has opened at The Compass Performing Arts Center, in the former Theatre Loft space on Elmwood Avenue. The inaugural production of Navigation Theatre Company, The Kindness of Strangers…
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October 16th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Come From Away is a heartwarming musical about people coming together in a small town in Newfoundland after the 9/11 tragedy. What might have devolved into a syrupy sentimental mishmash instead uses wit and honest feeling to…
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October 12th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Mel Brooks is the Emperor of Irreverence. Not a person, place, or thing is exempt from his madcap, often bawdy, seldom subtle, almost always broad, sense of humor. His and Gene Wilder’s 1974 movie, Young Frankenstein, a…
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October 11th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Arthur Przybyszewski (the “P” is silent, thank you very much) has retreated so deeply inside of himself that he barely interacts with the world around him. In Tracy Letts’ witty, insightful, and ultimately life-affirming…
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September 29th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Pipeline, a searing drama by Obie Award-winning playwright Dominque Morisseau, a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant recipient, references the “school-to-prison pipeline” faced by African American youth.…
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September 26th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
How do you deal with a mean girl like Regina? It turns out an energy bar and a school bus, along with a hearty portion of crow and unexpected kindness can make all the difference. In the musical version of Tina Fey’s 2004…
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